After DNA test reveals family secret, Boutte woman writes memoir

After DNA test reveals family secret, Boutte woman writes memoir

DiEsha Dorsey of Boutte grew up feeling rejected and abandoned. She said her mother, who left her in the care of her grandmother, never hugged her and paid little attention to her daughter. Her mother married in 1981 and lived with her husband and three other children while Dorsey stayed in her grandmother’s care. “That was still a question in the back of my head, like, why I can’t live with my mom,” Dorsey said. Dorsey was almost 9 years old wh…